Mastodon is not ready for me

[Marco d'Itri]

I just did again the usual web search, and I have verified that
Mastodon still does not support managing multiple domains on the same
instance[0], and that there is still no way to migrate an account to a
different instance without basically starting from scratch.

As much as I like the idea of a federated social network, open
standards and so on, I do not think that it would be wise for me to
spend time developing a so cial network identity on somebody else's
instance which could disappear at any t ime.

I have managed my own email server since the '90s, but I do not feel
that the system administration effort required to maintain a private
Mastodon instance would be justified at this point: there is not even a
Debian package! Mastodon either needs to become much simpler to
maintain or become much more socially important, and so far it is
neither.


[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668

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